Question
This word provides an alternate name for izze-kloth, a four-stranded knotted cord used in Apache rituals. A Crow legend states that a man named Scarface or Starboy built a large stone arrangement named for this word in the Bighorn mountains. The rituals of a religious group named for this word originated with Great Rabbit’s gift of a drum, a rattle, and tobacco to Otter. Initiation into that group named for this word includes ceremonial “shooting” of cowrie shells into candidates. Cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and (*) tobacco used for smudging rituals are represented by red, black, white, and yellow quadrants in a diagram named for this word. A religious group named for this word transmits teachings on wiigwaasabak (“weeg-WAH-suh-buck”), or birch bark scrolls, and holds initiations in lodges. The cardinal directions are represented in “wheels” named for this word. For 10 points, the Anishinaabe Midewiwin is a “grand society” named for what specific word, which is also prefixed to “man” in a colloquial term for shamans? ■END■
ANSWER: medicine [accept medicine wheels; accept the Grand Medicine Society; prompt on sacred hoop or sun dance circle before mention with “What other common name are they known by?”; prompt on wheels or lodges with “What other word is in the name?”; prompt on Midewiwin or heart with “What is it commonly known as in English?”] (While “medicine wheels” in reference to the stone formations are part of many indigenous traditions, the term was later appropriated to describe the red-black-white-yellow diagrams by so-called plastic shamans.)
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